News of Nuno Loureiro's shocking death has rippled through the ranks of academia, where colleagues say he made strides to ...

For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data ...

The White House threat to dismantle NCAR would be a deep setback to U.S. and global scientific research on topics, such as ...

Physicists at NASA and Princeton generate electricity from the Earth's rotation: could wind energy be our energy source of ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a distant world that looks and behaves nothing like the ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

The latest climate projections are no longer just abstract warnings about rising seas or hotter summers, they are starting to map out a distant but brutally specific endgame for complex life. Using a ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

Meteors from the Ursids appear near the Little Dipper, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor. Only skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance of seeing this shower. The moon ...

A paraplegic engineer has become the first wheelchair user in space, blasting off with Blue Origin. Severely injured in a ...